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Cuban LGBT rights advocates arrive in D.C., denounce Mariela Castro

Cuban LGBT rights advocates arrive in D.C.

Two Cuban LGBT rights advocates who are visiting the United States for three months on Monday arrived in D.C.

Ignacio Estrada Cepero and Wendy Iriepa Díaz on Monday met with staffers of Us Helping Us, an HIV/AIDS service organization, and Casa Ruby, a multicultural LGBT community center. Estrada and Iriepa are also scheduled to meet with Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen on Capitol hill on Wednesday before they return to Miami.

Estrada, who founded the Cuban League Against AIDS in 2005, told the Blade while at Casa Ruby that he and Iriepa, a transgender woman who used to work for Cuba’s National Center for Sexual Education (CENESEX) — which is directed by Mariela Castro Espín, daughter of Cuban President Raúl Castro — want to “show how we live, how we work” in Cuba while they are in the U.S.

The couple, who married in a high-profile wedding in Havana, the Cuban capital, in 2011, said Mariela Castro presents what they described as a distorted reality of the island’s LGBT community to the world.

OMG! Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is going to meet with gays and transsexuals? It doesn't make any sense!!! According to the mainstream media and Cuba experts, the instant that you're against castro and in favor of maintaining the embargo, you become a right-winged, facist, batistiano, annexionist, banana-republican, troglodyte! You mean, a Cuban American from Miami can be multi-dimensional?!? They aren't cardboard caricatures? They aren't the closest thing to a Nazi that hates everybody and wants to deny human rights to everyone except a few? A Miami Cuban can actually be against castro and at the same time be essentially progressive and liberal [in the true sense of the word] in other matters? Don't tell that to the New York Times, CNN, Time Magazine, Newsweek, ABC, CBS, NBC, MNBC Phil Peters, Julia Sweig or Saladrigas!

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